Removing a tag
A tag can be removed by using the decompose method and the select_one method with the CSS selectors to select and then remove the second element from the li tag and then using the prettify method to modify the HTML code from the index.html file.
Example:
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Python3
# Importing BeautifulSoup class from the bs4 module from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Opening the html file HTMLFile = open ( "index.html" , "r" ) # Reading the file index = HTMLFile.read() # Creating a BeautifulSoup object and specifying the parser S = BeautifulSoup(index, 'lxml' ) # Using the select-one method to find the second element from the li tag Tag = S.select_one( 'li:nth-of-type(2)' ) # Using the decompose method Tag.decompose() # Using the prettify method to modify the code print (S.body.prettify()) |
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How to parse local HTML file in Python?
Prerequisites: Beautifulsoup
Parsing means dividing a file or input into pieces of information/data that can be stored for our personal use in the future. Sometimes, we need data from an existing file stored on our computers, parsing technique can be used in such cases. The parsing includes multiple techniques used to extract data from a file. The following includes Modifying the file, Removing something from the file, Printing data, using the recursive child generator method to traverse data from the file, finding the children of tags, web scraping from a link to extract useful information, etc.